Hello from SapphicSavvy!

Set 8 is done! Congrats to TVAL17, ICEDLATTE, and ITSQ, who are walking away with real money for understanding the rest of you. Two Sets left in Heat 1. If you've been skipping rounds, this is where it starts to cost you.

Also, happy Bi Week! Bi Visibility Day is September 23rd, and our bisexual users picked a great week to be the most interesting group in the data. Stick around for the end.

🚚 Love at First Lease

About 34% of you have moved in with someone you'd been dating for three months or less.

A third! Of everyone!

Lea DeLaria says she wrote the joke in 1989: What does a lesbian bring on a second date? A U-Haul. By the time she recorded it for her 1997 album, the crowd was yelling the punchline back at her. Thirty-seven years later, a third of this app is still out here proving her right.

Y'all guessed 39%, though. So as fast as we move, we think we move even faster. Every age and identity group overshot this one. Except one.

Late teens 17%, 20s 22%, 30s 35%, 40s+ 48%

Nearly half of our 40s+ users have done the three-month move. And they're the only group we underestimated. The guess for them was 42.7%.

Some of this is plain math. It's an "ever" question, and ever questions pile up with age. More birthdays, more relationships, more chances to hand someone a key in week eleven. But I think it's generational too. Our 40s+ users were dating when that joke was brand new. No apps. The scene was two bars and a softball league. If you found her, you did not let her get back in her car.

And they don't seem to remember it as fast. Back in Set 5 Quarter 1, our 40s+ users told us they got over their first sapphic heartbreak in about 10 months, and I floated a theory that our memories compress with age. Same deal here, I think. When it works out, nobody looks back and says "we U-Hauled." They say "we just knew."

The late teens are at 17%, and a lot of them live with a parent, a roommate, or an RA. Very hard to U-Haul out of a dorm.

Lesbian 33%, bisexual 29%, queer 37%.

Queer users lead, which tracks. They also led on 12+ hour first dates back in Set 3 Quarter 4, and the path from "our first date lasted fourteen hours" to "she lives here now" is not long. Bisexual users came in lowest. Pin that. It's going to come up a lot this week.

Now the outside numbers. A survey from the dating app HER, cited by Autostraddle, put the average time before sapphic couples move in at 5.6 months. The bigger academic dataset we covered in Set 7 Quarter 2 (How Couples Meet and Stay Together) had female couples moving in around 16 months, versus about 23 for different-sex couples, and most of that gap disappears once you adjust for age. So depending on who's counting, the typical sapphic couple waits somewhere between half a year and a year and a half. Three months is fast by every one of those yardsticks.

It's also a whole genre now. Diva covered You Hauled, a YouTube dating show built around testing whether there's such a thing as "love at first lease." We have our own reality franchise.

Truly, we've made it.

And for balance, Autostraddle ran a lovely piece on queer couples who go the other way and never move in at all. They call themselves "apartners." One of them said living apart means they don't fight about socks or dishes and can "focus on what's important." Honestly? Compelling.

Let's put our own data on one timeline. Here's the SapphicSavvy relationship speedrun, sourced entirely from you:

• Date 1: Lasts 12+ hours for about half of you (Set 3 Quarter 4)

• Week 4: "I love you," for over 60% of you (Set 4 Quarter 2)

• Week 10: Location sharing (Set 4 Quarter 4)

• Week 13: Shared lease, for a third of you (this week)

• Age 25.5: The earliest you think a sapphic couple should get married (Set 7 Quarter 1)

Read that again. You'll say "I love you" six weeks before you share your location. We guard Find My harder than the apartment keys. Kind of iconic, actually.

If you're eyeing a truck right now: decide whose cat it is before you move. Everything else can be worked out.

💊 Supplement Facts

The typical user takes about two and a half supplements every day.

This follows the national pattern almost exactly, just turned up. CDC's latest national data (2021–2023) found 60% of American adults took any supplement in the past month. That climbs from 46% of adults 20 to 39 up to 76% of adults 60 and older, and women (66%) outpace men (54%).

Then look at the stacks. Only 39% of American adults take two or more supplements. Only 24% take three or more. Our typical user is at two and a half. And CDC asked about anything in the past 30 days, while we asked what you take daily. So the middle of this app would land in roughly the top third of the country. That's a population that knows where the magnesium aisle is.

The 40s+ are at a full three a day. I've seen the cabinet. I think I can write the label:

SUPPLEMENT FACTS: The 40s+ Stack Serving size: 3 capsules, plus 1 gummy she insists counts Servings per container: until retirement Vitamin D ......... the one her doctor mentioned in 2019 Magnesium glycinate ......... "for sleep" Fish oil ......... burps included at no extra charge Proprietary blend ("something a friend swore by at brunch") ......... ‡

‡These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent perimenopause, but she's hoping.

That's the real top three, by the way. ConsumerLab's 2026 survey of supplement users has vitamin D at number one for the eleventh year in a row, then magnesium, then fish oil. The biggest climber was creatine, up 17 points. Creatine used to belong to a guy named Tyler with a shaker bottle. Now it's in your group chat.

The 20s and 30s are tied at 2.2. The late teens are at 1.8, and I'd bet at least one of those is shaped like a gummy bear.

Lesbian 2.6, bisexual 2.5, queer 2.0.

Lesbians and bi users are basically tied. Queer users are half a pill behind, which is funny coming from the group with the most houseplants (Set 3 Quarter 1), the most vegetarians (Set 6 Quarter 1), and the most camping trips (Set 6 Quarter 4). Maybe they're getting their magnesium from spinach and fresh air, like a Victorian doctor ordered. Half a pill is not a scandal.

🌶️ DIY Season

The typical user masturbates a little over twice a week.

For context, that's a lot. In a national survey led by Debby Herbenick at Indiana University, only 36.5% of American women had masturbated in the past month, and only 8.8% did it weekly or more. Our typical user is at twice a week. So the middle of this app sits in roughly the top tenth of American women.

Queer surveys look more like us. A HER survey of more than 4,000 queer women found 77% masturbate at least weekly, and GO Magazine's summary of it was "lesbians really do love a DIY project." Autostraddle's big sex survey found 55% of respondents did it several times a week or more. We're right in the pocket.

But every single age and identity group overestimated this.

We do this every time sex comes up. In Set 8 Quarter 1, you overestimated how many straight girls the typical user has made out with. In Set 6 Quarter 2, the 20s guessed their own body count higher than it was. Put a sex question in front of this community and it pictures a hornier version of itself.

I think it's the visibility problem from Set 7 Quarter 3 again. The people talking about their sex lives online, in the group chat, and at brunch are the loudest slice of us, and we build our guesses from the loud slice. The quiet majority is at home, doing it twice a week and not posting about it.

Late teens 2.8, 20s 3.0, 30s 1.8, 40s+ 2.1.

The biggest miss by a mile was the 40s+. The guess was 4.4 times a week. The real answer was 2.1. Somebody out there decided the 40s+ have a daily practice with Sundays off. It's more like Tuesday, Saturday, and Thursday if work was bad.

The 20s are on top at 3.0, with the late teens right behind at 2.8. In Set 7 Quarter 4, 63% of our late teens hadn't had partnered sex in the past month. So. Self-sufficiency.

The 30s have the lowest number at 1.8. The chaos cohort! The group that led on 3+ orgasms in a session (Set 6 Quarter 3), squirting (Set 4 Quarter 3), and polyamory (Set 5 Quarter 2). They have partners and jobs, and some have kids (Set 3 Quarter 3). When the calendar fills up, solo time goes first. Autostraddle's survey backs this up: 65% of single respondents masturbated several times a week, compared to 47% of people in monogamous relationships.

So the U-Haul costs you something. Nobody puts that in the lease.

Bisexual users are lowest, and by a real margin. This one is a genuine puzzle, because in Autostraddle's survey bi respondents were actually a bit higher than lesbians (59% vs. 53% several times a week). So it's not some universal bi thing. If you're bi and you have a theory, tell us in the chat.

One more stat, because you'll need it later. When Herbenick's team asked women why they masturbate, 36% said stress relief. Remember that.

🤖 40% Chance of Apocalypse, Bring a Light Jacket

The typical user thinks there's about a 40% chance AI leads to humanity's demise in the next ten years.

If the weather app says 40% chance of rain, you bring an umbrella. This community is looking at a 40% chance of the end of the world by 2036 and a third of you still signed the lease. Respect.

Late teens 43.5%, 20s 48.1%, 30s 34.1%, 40s+ 35.6%.

Same ranking as Set 8 Quarter 1, when we asked who was more concerned than excited about AI. The 20s were the most alarmed group in the dataset (97%). The 30s and 40s+ were the calmest (85% each). Now the 20s put the odds of doom at 48%. That's a coin flip. By 2036.

So how does that compare to the people who build this stuff? In the biggest survey of AI researchers (about 1,500 of them, fielded in late 2024), the median researcher put the chance of AI causing human extinction or something similarly permanent at 10%. And they were mostly picturing the next century, not the next decade. Our 20s are giving almost five times those odds on a timeline about ten times shorter.

The rest of the country is catching up to us, though. A YouGov poll from just last week (more than 18,000 adults) found 50% of Americans are concerned AI will end the human race, up from 42% in late 2023. In a Pew survey from this February, 68% of women said AI is moving too fast, compared with 58% of men. And GLAAD's 2026 AI report gives queer people specific reasons to be nervous, from AI systems recommending conversion therapy to models that can guess your sexual orientation from how you act online. Worrying about AI isn't fringe anymore. We just got asked to put a number on it, and our number is big.

Lesbian 43.1%, bisexual 23.7%, queer 42.2%.

Bisexual users are twenty points calmer than everybody else.

Now the guesses, which are my favorite result of this whole Set.

In Set 8 Quarter 1, you underestimated how worried this community is about AI by 20 to 25 points, in every single subgroup. This time, every age and identity group landed within 5 or 6 points of the truth. Except one.

You learned! A few weeks of reading these posts and you recalibrated. This is literally what the game is for, and I'm a little emotional about it.

The one miss was bisexual users. We guessed 33.1%. The real number was 23.7%. My theory is that everyone overcorrected. Quarter 1 taught us "we're more scared than we think," so everyone bumped their guesses up. That worked for almost every group. Bi users just aren't that scared, so the bump overshot them.

Sincere beat, on purpose: if you're in your 20s and walking around with coin-flip odds on the end of the world, that's a lot to carry. You're allowed to care about this and also put it down sometimes. Sleep, see people, go outside. Set 8 Quarter 1 had you at about seven hours a night. Go get the eighth.

🧵 The Thread

Bi Visibility Day is September 23rd, so let's end where the data kept pointing.

Bisexual users came in lowest on three of this week's four questions. Fewest three-month U- Hauls (29%). Least masturbation (1.7 a week). By far the lowest doom odds (23.7%). Now zoom out to the whole Set. Quarter 1: lowest AI concern (84%). Quarter 3: least religious guilt (62%), and the least stress drinking of any group, about one drink a month.

Not moving in at month three. Not drinking over a bad day. Not bracing for the robot apocalypse. And if 36% of women masturbate for stress relief, maybe not needing that as often either. Across all of Set 8, bisexual users kept showing up as the steadiest people in the app.

And we keep guessing wrong about them in the same direction. In Set 6 Quarter 2, the data busted the idea that bi users have way more partners than the rest of us. In Set 6 Quarter 3, they had the highest guesses for being told their identity was "just a phase" and came in 20 points lower than lesbian and queer users. This week, we expected them to be more scared of AI than they are. Again and again, this community pictures bi users as messier, more anxious, and more chaotic than they turn out to be. That's a stereotype, and our data keeps refusing to back it up.

Here's how the rest of Set 8 went. We started in Quarter 1 by mythologizing ourselves: less sleep, less AI worry, and more making out than was real. We're ending it with the AI guesses nearly dead-on. We still think we're hornier and faster than we are. But you're getting better at seeing each other clearly, and that's the whole point of this thing.

Happy Bi Week to the calmest people in the room. Two Sets left. Take your vitamins. Maybe wait until month four.

XOXO SapphicSavvy

P.s. here's some additional reading if you're so inclined:

Love at First Lease:

• https://www.autostraddle.com/forget-u-hauling-these-queer-couples-dont-want-to-move-in-together-at-all/

• https://diva-magazine.com/2025/03/13/you-hauled/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-Haul_lesbian

Supplements and Peptides:

• https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db561.htm

• https://www.consumerlab.com/news/2026-supplement-popularity-press-release/02-26-2026/

• https://www.wvtf.org/2026-02-23/influencers-are-promoting-peptides-for-better-health-what-does-the-science-say

DIY Season (for research purposes):

• https://www.autostraddle.com/queer-women-masturbate-a-lot-and-other-self-pleasure-related-findings-from-our-lesbian-sex-survey-285414/

• https://gomag.com/article/give-yourself-a-hand-queer-women-surveyed-on-masturbation/

• https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-022-02505-2

AI and the End of the World:

• https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/55558-liberals-are-increasingly-likely-to-worry-about-ai-ending-humanity

• https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/06/17/the-gender-gap-in-ai/

• https://glaad.org/2026-ai-report-build-for-everyone/lgbtq-impacts/

• https://aiimpacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/ESPAI2024.pdf

Bi Week:

• https://glaad.org/biweek/